Galvanized horse or cattle troughs make cool looking and functional planters but I have never seen them converted for sub-irrigation (aka erroneously as "self-watering") until now. The website Mary Janes Farm presents a very well done PDF instruction using sections of PVC pipe to support a per...

I had my tubes tied at age 30, after asking for 5 years to have them done, so that I would neither add to the earth's population, nor urinate estrogen due to taking birth control pills. I honestly believe that my choice was good for the planet. I advocate for cheaper domestic child adoption, vs the less monitarily expensive foreign adoption, too. Our planet is in crisis, in my belief, due in large part to overpopulation.

We received some strong reactions to my comments about population control in the March/April issue of Sierra. Here are a few, with my responses: Hey Mr. Green, I found the question from Jeff in Denver about population control very interesting. Has the Sierra Club ever thought about advocating fo...

Hey Mr. Green, To conserve energy, I've asked my wife to never use the dishwasher to dry the dishes but she thinks that using the "heated dry" cycle protects us against germs and she surreptitiously overrides the air-dried settings. I argue that like millions of healthy people before us, we alw...